Paris Saint-Germain are on the verge of agreeing a fee of nearly €50 million with Zenit Saint Petersburg for Leandro Paredes, sources close to the French champions and the transfer have told ESPN FC.

Although Chelsea were keen on the 24-year-old Argentina international, PSG persevered after an opening offer was rejected at the start of January and are confident that an agreement with the Russian club has been more or less established and will be sealed on Friday after small details are cleared...

A court in Moscow has ordered that Russia internationals Aleksandr Kokorin and Pavel Mamaev must be remanded in custody until Feb. 8 after they were charged with hooliganism over two violent attacks in Moscow in October.

Zenit St Petersburg forward Kokorin and Krasnodar midfielder Mamaev could face jail over the attacks, which were captured on CCTV on Oct. 8. They were orginally to have been held in custody until Dec. 8.

Footage circulated by Russian media showed a man being kicked and punched...